So Nice (Summer Samba)    2:35 Astrud Gilberto & Walter Wanderley Trio Look To the Rainbow (Marcos Valle & Paulo Valle) Verve #821 556 2 Arranged by Gil Evans; Johnny Coles tpt; Walter Wanderley Trio, recorded 1967. Walter Wanderley Piano, Organ; Jose Marino, Bass; Claudio Slon, Drums; Walter Wanderley b. 12th May 1932. d. 4th of September 1986, was an organist and pianist, born in Brazil. He's best known for his lounge and boss nova  music  and mastery of the Ham B 3 organ.  He was married to Isaurinha Garcia, one of the most popular singers in Brazil.  

Hackensack   3:08 Wynton Marsalis Marsalis plays Monk-Standard Time 4 (Thelonious Monk) SRCS #8926 Wynton Marsalis tpt; Walter Blanding, Victor Goines t sax; Wessel Anderson a sax; Wycliffe Gordon tbn; Eric Reed p; Ben Wolf, Reginald Veal b; Herlin Riley d. NYC 93 94 1999 Born 29th May 1967 in Georgia. Wycliffe also plays didgeridoo, tpt, tu, piano, and sings. Gordon is rapidly becoming one of America’s most persuasive and committed music educators, and currently serves on the faculty of the Jazz Arts Program at Manhattan School of Music. Gordon is the youngest member of the U.S. Statesmen of Jazz, and in many tour performances has served and continues to serve as a musical ambassador for the U.S. State Department.  

Fascinating Rhythm/I Got Rhythm   2:03 Jane Rutter Embraceable You: Jane Rutter Plays The Gershwin Songbook (George Gershwin) ABC #4765964 oz Adelaide Symphony Orchestra Sean O'Boyle conductor. A tribute to World famous French flautist Jean Paul Rampal who performed them as a medley. He also collaborated with the French jazz pianist Claude Boiling on a couple of CD's. BYRON BAY – Friday 11 June, 7.30pm  at The Byron Bay Community Centre. 

My Attorney Bernie   3:54 Janet Seidel Trio We Get Requests (Dave Frishberg) La Brava LB #0075 oz Janet Seidel p, voc; Chuck Morgan g; David Seidel db. Festival Theatre Adelaide 2003 Mixed by Richard Lush Studio 301 Syd. A Wentworth Hotel Cocktail Bar favourite. 2007  Janet Seidel b. May 28, 1955, b. in Cummins, South Australia's, bush country, Janet Seidel has emerged as one of our leading cabaret and jazz vocalists. She has been appearing frequently at top jazz venues since the early '80s often working with bassist brother, David Seidel. Janet Seidel has also been featured at many jazz festivals in the U.S. 

The End of a Love Affair 4:41 Hal McKusick Verve Impressions: More Saxes (Edward C. Redding) Hal McKusick a sax, cl, fl. Eddie Art Farmer tpt, arr; Costa or Bill Evans p; Barry Galbraithg; Milt Hinton db; Teddy Kotick b; Gus Johnson,  Osie Johnson or, Charlie Persip d. 2005 Hal McKusick - Born 1st June in 1924 His first paying job was in 1939, at age 15. Then, starting in 1943, he played alto in many of the most challenging bands of the time from Les Brown, Woody Herman and Boyd Raeburn to Claude Thornhill and Elliot Lawrence. What makes Hal significant is the purity of his sound and his feathery tone and the delicate, melodic phrasing that he pioneered with Hal's ability to handle and swing the most complex arrangements. He spent 1958 through 1972 with the CBS Staff Orchestra doing studio work for  popular television shows. 

You Don't Know What Love Is   5:36 Kurt Elling Flirting With Twilight (D Raye/G Paul) Blue Note #31113 Kurt Elling voc; Clay Jenkins tpt; Bob Sheppard sop, t sax; Jeff Clayton a sax; Laurence Hobgood p; Marc Johnson b; Peter Erskine d.  2001 Peter Erskine b. June 5th1954, in New Jersey; is an American jazz drummer and composer. He's had a long and successful career as a session drummer, recording and touring with many top jazz and rock artists. He began playing the drums at the age of four. 1972 when he joined the Stan Kenton Orchestra. 1978 he joined Weather Report, joining the legendary Jaco Pastorius to perform as a formidable rhythm section. Today, Erskine splits his time as a musician and that of a professor at the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California.  

What Is This Thing Called Love?   3:26 Don Burrows & The Mell-O-Tones  Non-Stop Flight: Great Music of the Swing Era (Cole Albert Porter) ABC Jazz #982 9885 oz featured solos: Don Burrows clarinet; Trevor Rippingale tenor saxophone; Geoff Power cornet; Jim Elliott trombone; Ian Bloxsom drums.  2005 b. June 9th 1891 d. October 15, 1964 was an American composer and songwriter. one of the greatest contributors to the Great American Songbook. Cole Porter is one of the few Tin Pan Alley composers to have written both the lyrics and the music for his songs.  

The Late, Late Show   2:39 Dakota Staton The Late, Late Show (D Cavanaugh/R Alfred) Collectables  #31523124 Dakota Staton voc; backed by a largely unidentified orchestra arranged by Van Alexander with Hank Jones on piano; Jonah Jones tot. 1994Dakota Staton b. June 3rd 1930 in Pittsburgh d. April 10, 200, in Manhattan. She was 76 and had lived in New York for many years.  No. 4 hit, "The Late, Late Show". She performed as a vocalist with the Joe Wespray Orchestra in Pittsburgh and  spent years in the nightclub circuit. While in New York, she was noticed singing at a Harlem nightclub called the Baby Grand by Dave Cavanaugh, a producer for Capitol Records. She was signed and released several singles, her success leading her to win Down Beat magazine's "Most Promising New Comer" award in 1955.

Too Marvelous For Words   3:59 Gene Ammons, Sonny Stitt And Jack McDuff Soul Summit (R Whiting/J Mercer) Prestige PID #648065 Feb 19 1962 (Etta Jones voc;) Clark Terry tpt; Oliver Nelson cl, a sax; Red Holloway t sax; Richard Wyands p; George Duvivier db; Charlie Persip d; Ray Barretto conga, perc. 2007 Oliver Nelson b. .June 4th, 1932 in St. Louis, Missouri d. October 28, 1975 an American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and composer. His family was musical: his brother was also a saxophonist who played with Cootie Williams in the 1940s, and his sister sang and played piano. Nelson began learning to play the piano when he was six, and started on the saxophone at eleven. From 1947 he played in "territory" bands around Saint Louis, before joining the Louis Jordan big band from 1950 to 1951. A wonderful carer in the US and toured Europe with Quincy Jones. After six albums as a leader between 1959 and 196. Nelson continued to perform as a soloist during this period, though increasingly on soprano saxophone. d. in LA in 1975.

Farmer's Market   2:33 Darby Dizard Down for You (Art FarmerHank Mobley/Annie Ross) One Soul Records #67001424 Darby Dizard voc; Patience Higgins t sax; Christopher Cherney p; Tony Romano g; Jim Cammack b; Artie Dixson d; Cyro Baptista perc. 2007

Shufflin' at the Hollywood   3:06 Cozy Cole & Lionel Hampton Legendary Jazz Drummers (Lionel Hampton) Lionel Hampton vbes; Joe Muranyi cl; John Letman tpt; Big Chief Russell Moore tbn; Marty Napoleon piano; Cozy Cole d. 2009 Marty Napoleon b. 2nd, June 1921 in Brooklyn, New York,  is an American jazz pianist, perhaps best-known for having replaced Earl Hines in Louis Armstrong's All Stars in 1952. In 1946 he worked with Gene Krupa and went on to work with his uncle Phil Napoleon, a trumpeter, in Phil's Original Memphis Five. In the 1950s he also worked with his brother Teddy Napoleon, also a pianist, and from 1966-1971 he was performing with Louis Armstrong again. 

Lulu's Back in Town    2:48 Bob Enevoldsen Quintet Nocturne Records: Jazz in Hollywood - Harry Babasin & Bob Enevoldsen (Harry Warren/Al Dubin) Nocturne Records #3 Bob Enevoldsen valve tbn, b; Marty Paich p; Howard Roberts g; Harry Babasin b; Don Heath d. 1953 LA 

Someday My Prince Will Come   7:54 Bob Brookmeyer Late Night Jazz for Lovers (Frank Churchill/Larry Morey) Gryphon #G2 785 *a Bob Brookmeyer's excellent valve trombone playing. Joined by the complementary guitarist Jack Wilkins, bassist Michael Moore and drummer Joe LaBarbera. 2007  Jack Wilkins is a guitarist born on June 3, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York. He has played with many jazz greats. Wilkins is a New York City resident; he currently teaches at The New School, New York University, Long Island University, and the Manhattan School of Music.

My Heart Belongs to Daddy   4:10 Zoe Gilby Now That I Am Real (Cole Albert Porter) Yes Please! Tony Faulkner arr, cond, d; Graham Hearne p; Russell Pearson b; Ernie Jackson perc; Russell van den Berg t, sop sax; Mike Carton, Andy Hillier tbn; Graham Hardy tpt, flglhn. 2007 Cole Porter was born in Indiana, the only child of a wealthy Baptist family.

Work Song   6:12 Grant Green Jazz After Dark - Relaxin' in the Small Hours (N Adderley) Metro Doubles #545  Jazz After Dark 11 of 36 Protected  Grant Green g; 2006 Grant Green b. June 6th 1935 d. January 31st 1979 in New York City; was a jazz guitarist and composer. Recording prolifically and almost exclusively for Blue Note Records (as both leader and sideman) Green performed well in hard bop, soul jazz, bebop and Latin-tinged settings throughout his career. Green was born in St. Louis, MO. He first performed in a professional setting at the age of 12. 

The Laziest Gal In Town 5:40 Hilde Hefte On the Corner (Cole Albert Porter) Ponca Jazz Records #218976 *V Hilde Hefte voc; Egil Kapstad p; Nisse Sandström t sax; Bjørn Alterhaug b; Eyvind Wahlen d. 2006 one of Norway's leading jazz vocalists.  Porter was a Steinway Artist, which means that he chose to perform on Steinway pianos exclusively, and he owned a Steinway piano. Porter's piano is currently in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City. 

Soft Shoe   2:58 Anthony Braxton & Max Roach Birth and Rebirth (Anthony Braxton) Max Roach d perc, With Anthony Braxton composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist. 1978 Anthony Braxton b. June 4th 1945 is an American composer, saxophonist, clarinettist, flautist, pianist, and philosopher. Braxton has released well over 100 albums since the 1960s. He was never really accepted by the jazz establishment (Wynton Marsalis among them) insisted that Braxton's music was not jazz at all. Whatever one calls it, however, there is no questioning the originality of his musical voice 

A Lo Tristano   5:30 Paquito d'Rivera, The WDR Big Band & Bill Dobbins  Big Band Time (Paquito d'Rivera) Paquito d'Rivera sop, a sax, cl; 2008 Paquito d'Rivera b. 4th June 1948 in Havana, Cuba is an alto saxophonist, clarinetist and soprano saxophonist. Paquito was a child prodigy. He started learning music at the age of 5 with his father Tito Rivera, a well-known classical saxophonist and conductor in Cuba. By 1980, d'Rivera was dissatisfied about the constraints placed on his music in Cuba for many years, and had always longed to come to the United States. In early 1981, while on tour in Spain, he sought asylum with the American Embassy.  Now d'Rivera is an Artist in Residence at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.   

Moondance   4:26 The Champion Sisters In The Mood (Van Morrison) Capstone Records #4225025 The Champion Sisters were born in Texas, Brenda, Sandra and Molly began their careers singing gospel music at church. 2005  

That's What I'm Talkin' 'Bout   5:33 Shorty Rogers and His Giants The Swinging Mr. Rogers (Milton 'Shorty' Rogers) Collectables #6569 *b Shorty Rogers trumpt, Jimmy Giuffre on clarinet, tenor and baritone, pianist Pete Jolly, bassist Curtis Counce and drummer Shelly Manne. 1950's. Pete Jolly b. Peter Ceragioli Jr., June 5th, 1932, New Haven, Connecticut, died November 6, 2004, Pasadena, California, was an American West Coast jazz pianist and accordionist. He began playing the accordion at age three. Jolly's music can be heard on television programs such as Get Smart, The Love Boat, I Spy, Mannix, M*A*S*H and Dallas, as well as hundreds of movie soundtracks. He died in Pasadena, California in 2004, aged 72. 

Filthy Funky  5:02 Papa John Creach Playing My Fiddle for You (Filthy P. Grayson) Acadia Records LP Papa John Creach fiddle; Guitarist Kevin Moore of Zulu who is now better known as Keb Mo 2005 b. John Henry Creach May 28, 1917, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania; d. February 22, 1994, Los Angeles, California. He was the well known fiddler for Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna, in 1970.  

Oops! Mr. Mingus   5:05 Teo Macero Impressions of Charles Mingus (Teo Macero) Orchard.com #6991043 Teo Macero t, b sax; Pepper Adams b sax; Dave Leibman, John Stubblefeld, Al Cohn, Lee Konitz sax; Jon Faddis, Ted Curson tpt; Dave Valentin fl; Bill Evans sax; Biff Hannon, Mike Knock p;  Ryo Kawasaki g; Marcus Miller b; Theme 'The Body Human' 1 of 8 Protected  2005.Theodore "Ted" Curson b. June 3rd, 1935, in Philadelphia, is a jazz trumpeter, perhaps best-known for recording and performing with Charles Mingus.